. >> the lost city. tavis: you work on these things a long time. tommy why you choose to spend your life as an actor, producer, director, spending and investing so many years on these passion projects? >> i think it is a desire to tell the story. if you have an idea for a story and you take it to warner brothers and they say, when can you start, i would say great. they are making certain type of movies with certain commercial parameters they are dealing with, for kids and stuff like that. if your project is not quite fit that, you are on your own. you have to decide. what are you prepared to do, if you want to tell the story? you have to take responsibility for them. that is what i do, if i have a passion for something. i am like a dog with a bone. however long it takes. tavis: would it be unfair to say when you do blockbusters like the ocean projects, you in part due those -- do those to finance the other stuff you want to do? >> it is very hopeful for an actor to be in a highly commercial film. those movies, the publicity machinery behind it, the